Chinese National Gets 12 Years for CJNG Cocaine

My editor would cut this plot for being too neat. Wenshen Xu, 52, a Chinese national, was sentenced to 12 years and ordered to pay a $22 million judgment after pleading guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering conspiracy, and material support to CJNG, a cartel Washington designates a foreign terrorist organization. The Justice Department says his network moved more than 450 kilograms of cocaine from Cali, Colombia, for Mexican cartels, mostly CJNG. Guatemala arrested him in 2025 and extradited him in January. Designating CJNG a terrorist group was supposed to make things tougher. Apparently the paperwork is still catching up with the cocaine. Somewhere in Washington a task force is drafting a report about the report. Professionals talk logistics, and this was a logistics operation with a cartel's name on the invoice.